Free drink, free meal if you don’t mind getting stares

Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 09:48 PM.

If you don’t mind getting extra attention — or flat out stares — you can get a free meal at Chick-fil-A Friday by dressing like a cow on Cow Appreciation Day.

You gain a free meal by fully dressing as a cow. You get a free entrée by wearing partial cow attire. What’s the difference? Chick-fil-A’s Frequently Asked Questions about Cow Appreciation Day says, “‘Fully dressed like a cow’ means an effort to be dressed like a cow from head to toe. ‘Partial cow attire’ means just a cow accessory, such as a cow-printed hat, vest or purse. People dressed in partial attire will be awarded an entrée versus a full combo meal.”

Full cow apparel gets you a free breakfast, lunch or dinner meal, depending on when you come in the restaurant. Children can opt for a kid’s meal.

If you’re really feeling moo-ved (sorry, couldn’t resist one cow joke), try for the Best Cow Costume Contest prize. You can enter as a cow or calf or as a “herd” of at least two people. Check out Chick-fil-A’s website for full details.

If you don’t mind getting extra attention — or flat out stares — you can get a free meal at Chick-fil-A Friday by dressing like a cow on Cow Appreciation Day.

You gain a free meal by fully dressing as a cow. You get a free entrée by wearing partial cow attire. What’s the difference? Chick-fil-A’s Frequently Asked Questions about Cow Appreciation Day says, “‘Fully dressed like a cow’ means an effort to be dressed like a cow from head to toe. ‘Partial cow attire’ means just a cow accessory, such as a cow-printed hat, vest or purse. People dressed in partial attire will be awarded an entrée versus a full combo meal.”

Full cow apparel gets you a free breakfast, lunch or dinner meal, depending on when you come in the restaurant. Children can opt for a kid’s meal.

If you’re really feeling moo-ved (sorry, couldn’t resist one cow joke), try for the Best Cow Costume Contest prize. You can enter as a cow or calf or as a “herd” of at least two people. Check out Chick-fil-A’s website for full details.

If you don’t want to change your getup to get a freebie, check out this deal from 7-Eleven.

You can get a free small slurpee between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday.

The nearest 7-Eleven stores are on Charlotte Highway in Clover, S.C., and Mount Holly-Huntersville Road in Charlotte.

Movie theater outages caused by bad cables, not blown transformer

I may have passed along some bad information in last week’s article about the local movie theater’s power outage. The Regal Entertainment Group spokeswoman told me that a transformer blew up, but a local Duke Energy worker tells me that’s not true.

The worker, who didn’t want to give his name, told me Duke Energy crews shut off the power Monday and were back first thing Tuesday morning. A crew discovered that several cables had gone bad and burned up. Crews replaced the damaged cables, made repairs and left about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The worker told me that those cables had probably been damaged when they were installed nine or 10 years ago and had worn down over time.

He was concerned that people might think Duke Energy did something wrong, and wanted to correct wrong information about a transformer causing the problem.

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